ranks to other religions. Some decided to move again‚ this time to North America. In December of 1620‚ eighty-eight Separatist "Pilgrims" disembarked from the Mayflower at a place they called Plymouth on the coast of present-day southeastern Massachusetts. But misfortune followed the Separatists to the New World. The hardships of the crossing and inadequate provisions left many vulnerable to a "starving time" during the winter. The Plymouth
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England planted their first successful settlement‚ Jamestown‚ and thereby created the colony of Virginia‚ the first of the Chesapeake region. Captain John Smith‚ in 1624‚ once described his experiences on his journey to Virginia and that the worst people among him were the gold-seekers. Ten years after John Smith’s voyage‚ Lord Baltimore‚ a man of a prominent English Catholic family founded Virginia’s sister colony‚ Maryland. He had embarked on the journey partly to gain financial profits and partly
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merchants obtained charter to colonize at Massachusetts Bay‚ north of Plymouth‚ in 1628 (Massachusetts Bay Company) to escape harassment. Massachusetts Bay vs. Plymouth Similarities: Puritan dominated‚ self-governing colony rather than controlled from England by stockholders‚ proprietors‚ or the crown. Both primarily attracted landowning farm families of modest means‚ most of them receptive if not actively committed to Calvinism. Differences: Massachusetts leaders were nonseparatists‚ advocating the
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Hutchinson and Puritan Leadership Anne Hutchinson was a strong willed and intelligent woman that lived in 1637 in the Massachusetts Bay colony. She opposed both John Winthrop‚ governor of the colony‚ as well as the Puritan church leaders who had a different set of beliefs from her‚ and made up the court of elected officials that assisted the governor. She was banished from the colony in 1638 on charges of blasphemy‚ because she claimed to have direct and divine inspiration from the Holy Spirit‚ in
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The Puritans and Sex In the 1630s‚ the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the North to detach themselves from the Church of England‚ and to pursue religious tolerance. Puritans lead lives that emphasized hard work and discipline‚ which caused them to be perceived as narrow-minded‚ and very strict in religion and morals. Despite what early colonists then and citizens of America today believe‚ some Puritans did not comply with their stereotypical lives of high morals and no sex
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Cited: Hall‚ David D. Puritanism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts‚ New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston‚ 1968. Hensley‚ Jeannine‚ ed. The Works of Anne Bradstreet‚ Boston: Harvard University Press‚ 1967. New York: New York University Press‚ 1970. MacMillan Company‚ 1963. Stanford‚ Ann. Anne Bradstreet: The
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Evaluate the extent to which religious toleration in the British North American colonies maintained continuity as well as fostered changed from 1607-1700. Prior to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1630 religion had not played a large part in the politics and development of the British North American colonies. The first settlers who established Jamestown in 1607 were looking for riches similar to those found by the Spanish in Central America. After finding no treasure and on the brink
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by someone else and the indentured servant had to work for that person for a number of years. Socially‚ in the Chesapeake‚ people lived very short lives. Diseases such as malaria‚ dysentery and typhoid took the lives of next to everyone in the colony. Malaria is a parasitic disease that involves much flu like symptoms. Dysentery is a group of intestinal disorders characterized by the inflammation of the intestines‚ mainly the colon. Cramps are the main symptom. Typhoid is a bacterial infection
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economical reasons‚ like many of their brethren did in the Chesapeake Bay colonies. Puritans instead wanted to create their model Christian society based on the principals of high morality‚ and strong family and community lives. Puritan society was based on certain morals and principals which enabled the Puritans to successfully establish a colony; these same morals and principals had a profound impact on the New England colonies in a similar way as well. John Winthrop´s utopian Puritan society is
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they realized what it took to survive in the Chesapeake area. The Puritans had a very specific opinion on what they valued. This happened to be religion‚ and they agreed to live in a community that had those values in common. So‚ they started a colony that followed this example. However‚ if you are going to have a community‚ you must have leaders to make decisions. These were the religious leaders‚ who were also the political leaders. In this new government that they had created‚ they needed a
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